The fight for a new laurel crown beggins
The most anticipated moment of the start of the season is here: women's cycling is finally a reality in Cycling Fantasy. Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race will be the first race of the year in the Women’s WorldTour category, and it will also be the first of the 24 races that will be computed for the WWT general classification.
Cadel Evans Great Ocean is a young race, which reaches its fifth edition in 2020. Of the previous four editions of the women's event, two have resulted in reduced sprints. They are the cases of 2017, when Annemiek Van Vleuten (1200) took the race in a 5 women sprint, and of 2018, when Chloé Hosking (1000) clearly won a sprint to a peloton where about 20 units remained. The other two editions were solved with solo attacks. Amanda Spratt (1200) resolved in 2015 the first edition of the race starting at 20 km from the finish line, while Arlenis Sierra (800) won last year with a well-planned attack 4 km from the end.
The profile is very similar to that of the 2019 edition, and it seems obvious that Challamba Crescent elevation, located 10 kilometers from the finish line, is the ideal place for climbers to try to break the race. It’s only 1.2 kilometers at 8’3% slope, but it is the last chance to get rid of the sprinters.
As in men's race, we must bear in mind Australians are more fit than European and American at this time of year, so it may be a good option to load our team of local cyclists.